Job profile: management record label

Overview

Record labels need managers and administration staff to carry out a range of tasks that support the label to run.

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Responsibilities

Record labels need managers and administration staff to carry out a range of tasks that support the label to run and, where they are independent to get paid by clients. Staff need to be recruited, paid and retained and trained and systems need to be in place to record activities with clients and to pay invoices and raise invoices, as well as keeping accounts and other financial records.

Overall the label manager has to ensure that the label, or his or her section is as profitable as possible. With smaller and often independent label the manager may be the owner and may take the lead on managing the whole organisation, setting up systems, being responsible for running the label on a day to day basis, getting work and hiring staff to work with the label.

With larger record labels there may be separate management roles which will work alongside the production staff to ensure they have what they need to be able to work successfully with clients. For a large record label, the manager may need to understand the work of several departments, such as personnel or finance, but may not be directly responsible for this sort of work.

Skills associated with this job

Work activities

  • Liaising with managers and agents of artists and bands
  • Listening to demo tapes from artists and bands
  • dealing with bands
  • liaising with record producers
  • ensuring contracts are in place
  • liaising with licensing an copyright agencies
  • liaising with legal advisers
  • liaising with studios
  • analysing sales data
  • reviewing marketing information
  • ensuring financial arrangements are in place for both payments and income
  • ensuring cleaning, maintenance and security arrangements are in place
  • setting up and attending meetings
  • dealing with correspondence and emails
  • maintaining and managing recording systems, for staff and for finances
  • ensuring there are policies within the label
  • People-management activities, including hiring any freelance workers

Knowledge

  • An understanding of A&R managers, record company structure and the industry as a whole
  • Knowledge of the relationships between people in different parts of the industry

Skills

  • self-motivation
  • good inter-personal skills.
  • persuasion and negotiating skills
  • work well with all kinds of people, and as part of a team
  • excellent communication skills both verbal and written
  • problem-solving skills
  • to be flexible and able to handle different kinds of work
  • able to motivate and encourage others
  • decisive and able to work well under pressure
  • able to work on own initiative
  • effective at planning, prioritising, monitoring and reviewing
  • able to resolve conflicts swiftly

Behaviours and personal qualities

  • enjoy taking responsibility.
  • has original ideas
  • broad contacts

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